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RE: [Asrg] News Article - FTC's do-not-call registry email blocked by Yahoo

Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com> Tue, 01 July 2003 21:22 UTC

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From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
Subject: RE: [Asrg] News Article - FTC's do-not-call registry email blocked by Yahoo
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Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 17:15:25 -0400

At 12:08 PM -0400 7/1/03, Bob Wyman wrote:
>Kee Hinckley wrote:
>>  If they wanted to keep the stuff from being blocked,
>>  they should have thought of talking to the spam filter
>>  companies a bit earlier than the day before.
>	This just isn't right. The FTC mails were not spam and they
>should not have been blocked. The burden for ensuring that non-spam
>messages pass through the email system should be on those who block
>messages, not on those who send them.

In an ideal world, yes.  But if it were an ideal world, we wouldn't 
be here.  So they should have taken that into account.  *Especially* 
when you know you are going to be sending high-volume, substantially 
similar, mis-formatted email messages.
-- 
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/          Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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